Re: Machine Consciousness
Good post.
Its a multi war front to get us to volunteer for cybernetic unity. Personally I think they support, infiltrate and guide the top perspectives.
We are being distilled presently to harvest the best type of genome that suits this Nefarious Plan. This is part of the culling project going on, on all levels.
Secular Humanism is hugely funded. UN, education etc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism I do like their symbol of the Happy Human, Not! More like a Golem....
Buddism in a vague complexity is pushed forward to intermix. Please see the Lotus Eaters thread in Philosophy.
Then you have this Gaia Principle scientific approach that is supported.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesisThis is the round about mix that is happening to be the New world religion. It will satisfy the spiritual zealot, the atheist and the scientist.
The idea is complex, but you support and degrade fundamentalism, using fundamentalism as the catalyst for synthesis.
You can see this with the US for example. They are degrading the US through civil war and corruption.
Synthesis being this quasi religious, scientific new world thought on saving the planet.
Frank Herbert had the right idea with the Orange Bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Catholic_BibleWhile we are distracted with this Religious, economic and scientific War, they will insidiously, incrementally bring us toward Cybernetic fusion by dangling the latest Tech in our faces.